X-Message-Number: 11770
From: Daniel Ust <>
Subject: On one of Broderick's criticisms of Nord
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:38:59 -0400

On Fri, 14 May 1999 11:31:56 +0000 Damien Broderick 
<>:
>By the way, the fact that your site is in Europe rather than the USA
>(or the UK or even Australia) is irrelevant, unless it's only in 
Swedish;
>the net is global, but still very heavily American in its reach and 
use.
>We ignore these demographics at our perils.

That may be so, BUT when I looked in Yahoo, I did not find Nord's 
page
among the sits matches for cryonics.  Nor did I find his page among 
the
first 20 (of 1410) page matches.  However, when I searched on 
"cryonics
Sweden," I found his site listed in the top 20 (of 78) matches.  Ergo, 
I think
the odds of a Christian who doesn't have a sense of humor (in other 
words,
probably an American - since I've noticed Americans tend to be the 
ones
who get flustered over any little joke; must be all the political 
correctness
here), yet who would sign up with cryonics were it not for Nord's tag 
line
running into his page are small.

(I think it's more likely for an orthodox Objectivist to run into my 
web
pages.  See below.:)

And again, the question needs to be asked:  Does anyone have any
data on how best to market cryonics?  If Nord changed that line about
Jesus, would one more person join the movement?  Would thousands
of Christians suddenly drop their Bibles and sign up for suspension
arrangements?  Or would nothing really change?  I bet the last, but
I confess to not having any market studies to back my claim.

Now, I don't want to appear as Nord's apologist.  I do agree with
much else of Broderick's post - e.g., that Nord was use an ad hom.
argument in his responses, etc.

Cheers!

Daniel Ust
>http://www.monadnock.net/summa/
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4612/ust/ust.html

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